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Time for the Giants to Clean House

 TIME FOR THE GIANTS TO CLEAN HOUSE 

T. Ingals @StickyClickSM

Giants GM Dave Gettleman

The Giants, once again, find themselves at the very bottom of the NFL before the calendar has even hit November. Kids haven’t even gone trick-or-treating yet, and the Giants season is effectively over. A 1-5 record through 6 weeks is essentially a death sentence in the NFL. No playoffs for the Giants again, for they’ve only had one playoff appearance since their unlikely 2011 Super Bowl run. 


What’s wrong with the Giants? What has turned a once proud franchise into the laughing stock of the NFL? It’s poor management and poor coaching. 


General Manager Dave Gettleman took over the Giants following a brutally disappointing 2017 campaign, which resulted in the firing of long time GM Jerry Reese. Gettleman promised to improve the Giants offense line and bring winning back to New York, neither of which have happened under his tenure. 


The Giants continue to have one of the worst offensive lines in the league, and have every season he’s been GM. With Gettleman came a new coach, who didn’t last long and was fired after two disappointing seasons. Last year seemed to have some promise after a horrible start. Despite finishing 6-10, we only missed the playoffs because the Eagles failed to beat the Redskins in the final game of the regular season. We were very close to hosting a playoff game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a 6-10 division winner. But that hope was all false hope, for the Giants defense that we thought had some promise at the end of last year, has turned into one of the worst defenses in the NFL.


Saquon Barkley at the 2018 NFL Draft. Photo from the AP.

Dave Gettleman’s tenure must come to an end. It should have come to an end after last season. Gettleman has made poor pick after poor pick. His worst pick, in my eyes, was taking running back Saquon Barkley with the 2nd overall pick in the NFL draft. No serious person takes a running back with the 2nd overall pick in the draft. Barkely had a breakout season in 2018, winning the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. But it was to no avail, and the Giants finished 5-11 that year and were non-competitive for most of the season. 


2019 and 2020 were injury plagued seasons for Barkley, only appearing in 13 games in 2019 and missing almost the entire 2020 campaign due to a torn ACL that he suffered in Week 2 against the Chicago Bears. Barkley had started the first five games this season, but another injury against the Cowboys in Week 5 has sidelined him for a few weeks.  Everyday it becomes more and more clear that drafting a running back with the 2nd overall pick was a huge mistake. 


If the Giants were smart, they’d trade Barkley immediately. The Giants have an option to pick up the last year of his contract for 2022, but that would be a mistake. There’s no way the Giants should pay an injury plagued running back, who gets all of his game yardage from one or two explosive plays, max money. We should trade him while he still has value and admit that drafting him was a mistake and a waste of time.


Next, The Giants need to fire Gettleman and the entire coaching staff immediately following the conclusion of what is bound to be another terrible season. The Giants need to, for once, hire a young offensive minded head coach. The rest of the league has and it’s worked. Take a look at the Rams, Cardinals, Browns, Bills, 49ers, etc. You want to know why they score so many points? They have a creative offensive head coach and a well run front office. Those are two things the Giants don’t have and desperately need.  Fans are running out of patience, and it’s time for Mara to get a hire right for the first time in two decades.

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